Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba
socio-cultural organisation, has said it’s not aware of the 2019 presidential
ambition of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola
Tinubu.

Afenifere said this while
dismissing claims that Tinubu’s visit to its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in
Akure, the Ondo State capital, was political.

The body, through Sehinde
Arogbofa, told Punch that Tinubu’s meeting with Fasoranti was a private one
which had nothing to do with politics.

According to Arogbofa, “People
can give any interpretation to the visit. But from the Afenifere’s point of
view, we are not aware of his (Tinubu) political ambition and his visit was not
political.

“He came on a private visit and
sought to be reunited with his socio-political source, which is Afenifere.

“In the past 15 years, he has not
been very close to us and if for this time, he felt it, as a real Yoruba man,
to pay homage to the leader of Afenifere, I think it is commendable. So his
visit has nothing to do with politics. It was purely private and nothing more.”